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THE PILOT, a Paper wHh rharacter. Aberdeen, North Carolina
June 5
THE PILOT
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THE PILOT, Incorporated.
Aberdeen, North Carolina
NELSON C. HYDE, General Manager
BION H. BUTLER, Editor
JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT
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some more machines and estab- j noses at the laws and the benev-
li&h new jobs of making other olent socialism that is our in-
things they never had until they
were put out of the laborious
creasing centralization.
It is not new. The unrestricted
task of doing things by hand, acts of the individual have been
The Taylors have shown us that
they are running ahead of the
revolution now in progress. They
use tractors and all sorts of ma-
the object of repression by or
ganized effort of society from
the beginning. Law primariljs
probably, had for its purpose to
chinery and they are making prevent the encroachment of one
things, and releasing many men
for other work. The men releas
ed will presently be established
in other lines of work v/hich will
produce much greater quantities
of many tihings and we will all
have much more of everything.
This depression is merely the
adjustment of men to the new
conditions which will be condi-
man against another. Now it has
for its aim almost anything any
where we were long before our
ancestors were cave men. Each
still reserves to himself the her
editary rigJht of caring for him
self, which says we are indivi
dualists individually, and' that
while we may become socialists
collectively we still remain in
dividualists. It is a pretty little
GRAINS OF- SANn
McClammont Oigg, who was in from the hens appear to be dissatisfi 1
the Wagon-wheel settlement Tuesday, | that price and have taken to ^
says since the year of the Red-shirt ito see if things can’t be remed’^^"^
^oTTc. Vio Vioc Tiowr sAPTi as manv birds ' littlp. »
around the place as this summer. In
^ ^ ^ 1 ^ ; the morning as the dawn approaches
staging of that great struggle O ^ racket like a runaway
the organiz^ion to overcome t e j teanu and they keep up their clat
ter until the sun begins to crawl above
Entered at the Postoffice at Aber- , . • i j. j j i?
deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat- ^ higher ^tandard of
ter.
A COUNTY OF
VARIED PRODUCTS
This is “Made in North Car
olina Week,” and though Moore
county is not looked upon as a
manufacturing county, we can
hold our heads up with the rest
of them. The State Department
of Conservation and Develop
ment credits us with sixty man
ufacturing plants, with a size
able number of employes and
large annual payroll.
But it is in variety of manu
factured products that we claim
our place in the spotlight. We
turn out cotton goods, yarns,
rayon products, furniture, talc
and talc products, auto bus bod
ies, ornamental iron articles
such as lamps, grill work and the
like; we have one of the finest
archery plants in the country,
make a lot of pottery, carve
splendid building stone,
living and comfort. But no hu
man force can stay the revolu
tion, It has already established
itself as the Leslie farm is pos
itive and plain evidence.
SOME ILLUSIONS
OF GOVERMENT
A few days ago The Pilot was
given a book calling attention to
the dangers of Communism, or
Socialism, or Sovietism, or what
ever term may be used to specify
the particular thing considered.
An opinion was .isked. Inasmuch
s scientific men have been divid
ed on this subject for genera
tions, or to be more specific,
since the morning stars first
sang together, it is hardly with
in the province of a country
newspaper to settle the matter.
At any rate as it was| settled
with the primal law of life and
existence, a law that was laid
make '^^wn at the same time that those
^ oindividual, but it has always
body suggests. We legislate con- been merely a struggle and never i
the trees. The whippoorwills holds
cerning morals, and religion and ia success. Probably it never wiii. every morning and they all
thought and action, and we pay , It is still a spectacle. People will
no attention to the Jegislation. stand for the law of
We are becoming a more soci-ilis- to a certain point, but no farther,
tic government by statute and Beyond that individualism as-
a more individualistic govern- serts itself. Therefore socialism,
ment by action. These things i communism, fascism, societism
work themselves out because and all their forms are merely an
from te beginning the laws of incident. They will never be any-
fro mthe beginning the laws of thing else. The basic laws are
amended. And we are today iimmutable. Don’t; get scared.
An observing farmer predicts about
65 per cent of cotton acreage tn I
harvested this year. He says fron'
Southern Pines Marching On
Despite Business Depression
what he hears that will be probably
a close to the situation over the state
❖
come. He says he notices a less num^ ! x, „ ,
her of hawks and owls than usual, but i , , . as a w eat crop over
an increase in nearly everything else. ' ... f Knollwood that
Quail seem to be more numerous in ' family if the
his section, and on the way into town ishould suffer dur,
a turkey flew across the road In front depression.
of him, a thing he has not recalled in
several years. , ' Here and there the earlier peaches
are beginning to show color. Orchards
The dewberry crop is setting up one healthy and the fruit well set and
of the best yields known in a long promising condition. It will be pro
time. Already the color is coming and marketed at a
picking will be under way in a short ^^^t than usual and gives hope
time. i ^ grower and employ.
ment for the worker.
Growing at a Gait and in a Sub
stantial Manner Few Realize
Says Mr. Butler
brick and tile; we can dress up in
our own hosiery and neckwear;
yes, we occasionally dig a lit
tle gold. A good many of our
plants turn out lumber of var
ious kinds, and we have some
grist mills and, pardon our men
tioning it, some excellent print
ing plants.
Few of our visitors and many
of our citizens do not realize the
number of articles made in
Moore county. Why wouldn’t it
be a good idea one of these days
to have an industrial exhibit of
Moore county manufactured pro
ducts ? Let’s know our own coun
ty better.
A PROPHET OF
REVOLUTION
other fundamental laws were
given their power, the working
of the law is fairly well estab
lished without much outside
help.
Socialism is a word that is va
riously interpreted. The current
acceptation of its meaning| de
pends on how you want to un
derstand it. Volumes have been
written, and sciences laid down
with socialism for the founda
tion. Yet it is not so complicat
ed if we bear in mind that east
is east and west is west. Social
ism is group action as distin
guished from indivualism. Theo-
roetically we are all for govern
ment. Government is socialism.
Actually we are all individualists
and we accept a certain socialist
restraint under the belief that
tas sood features.
affords the
plain forecast of the industrial I ^ ^ u i
t. XI-. T._ 1! aommation over men as far back
United States a, Government has had a feeble
revolution that is pending, and
against which we are powerless
to struggle. There is a family of
four persons, Mr. Taylor, wife.
as We know. Steadily it has de
veloped a stronger hold, until at
the present it assumes a highly
son and Miss Leslie. The big, centralized form, so much so
farm employs three regular
hands. The business is producing . *ts manifestati(m a
milk for the Sandhills market disregard for law. N..
The herd embraces nearly a hun-1^ nows the multitude of
dred cattle. As a side line the '^ws and very few people reaRy
Taylors raise this year probably.®*' eitam a ^rious mtent to ob-
450 bushels of wheat, an equal ®®rve more than a limited few ot
amount of rye, 1,200 bushels of
corn and other things that do Individualism does not protest
not go directly to the operation ^^uch against the law, but simply
of the dairy. They have two shows indifference. Yet our gov-
mules, which do not work a great i ernments become more socialis-
deal, for they are not of value'tic year by y-ar. Our legislat’ire
except for odd jobs. But they i this year took control of the
have a tractor that handles farm | roads, the schools, and other
machinery for the farm jobs. In. minor factors of human relation
two or three days that tractor | and action. The Federal govern-
will plow the wheat ground, seed |?ient is steadily encroaching on
it, harvest it, and then go round dividual freedom. Russia, in
looking for signs that the rye is its sovie'ism, Italy in its fascism,
ready to cut, or the land ready have gone a little farther in their
to break for fall crops or some-' brutal crudeness than we have,
thing to do to keep its bearings' but probably they have done no
oiled. .more violence to individual free-
Tractor farming can make ' We talk about a govern-
wheat at a price hand labor or 'ment of the majority, but we are
mule labor can not touch. Wheat
is cheap, and will be cheap in
definitely because machinery all
'a government of the speaker of
the House of Representatives
and the chairmen of a few com
over the world can make wheat j^i^tees. Our revolutions are con-
like a gang mill makes saw dust. I fined so far to political leaders.
It is not the cheap labor of Rus-]^®^ we do not allow too many
sia or Argentina or any place Revolutionists to take a hand in
else that has cut the price of i the big game. We may all vote,
wheat, but the cheap labor of but we vote for what tfie speak-
tractors and machinery, as one
glance at the Leslie farm will
show. The Leslie force will take
a few days off from their regu-
er of the house permits to be
come aa issue.
Socialism infers a common
movement for the good of so
lar dairy work, or rather they j ciety. But it becomes absolute
will add a little to their regular | domination of the individual and
work during a few days in spring | all his rights and privileges, and
and summer, and they will make I through the idea of a govern-
wheat to run themselves for ^ev- ment in which control is centered
era! years and have a large rarar- i it puts our congress and legisla-
gin to sell. High-priced wheat is ture, which in turn are center-
a dead bird in the pit. All over
this county this summer are
wheat crops.
It is lamented that this is put
ting men out of jobs, which is a
fact. But it should be remember
ed that men do not live for jobs,
but that jobs are for the sake of
the product. Machines have put
men out of jobs, thank Heaven,
as long ago as we can remember.
The result is that men make
ed on their presiding officers.
Government restrains us as far
as men are willing to submit, or
as far as they will go without
revolt. And that is where we are.
Russia is working out its prob
lem. Russia is experimenting
with an interesting attempt, and
with more or less promise of
some curious successes. We are
tying a few Hard knots in our
own ears, and thumbing our
By Bion H. Butler
Few people have any idea of the
progress Southern Pines is making.
Last week The Pilot' mentioned the
new additions to the Ramsey house
near the Highland Pines Inm This and
other building jobs continue to point
the way the place is growing. But
these constitute only one feature.
Equally significant is the large
amount of new planting of trees and
shrubbery all through the village and
up and down the roads. More striking
perhaps is the street improvement, es
pecially that on the main highways
and in the connection that Pennsyl
vania avenue /provides toward the
Midland Farms country and the inter
vening territory about Jimtown. New
water mains have been laid to consid
erable extent. The road to Pinehurst
has been rebuilt. Perhaps no year in
the town’s existence has been more
significant in its general and compre
hensive improvement on wide and var
ied lines. The pronounced success of
the Highland Pines Inn in remaining
open until June is far more impor
tant than might seem at first thought,
but it appears to foreshadow a new
string to the bow—summer business
of magnitude and of longer term. All
these things are of decided conse
quence. Charlie Picquet's theater con
tinues to draw big crowds, and to pre
sent pictures weeks before they are
shown in much bigger towns. This
theater is one of the most positive in
dications of the expansion of South
ern Pines as a village and ot the
community as a community.
SoutheiTi Pines is a growing town
in a growing center. Both are grow
ing at a gait that is not fully realized,
and in substantial manner that is not
entirely comprehended. Year by year
he complaint of the growing pains are
heard—until this year. No street work
of magnitude is under way now% no
big development of public character to
fall for public funds, although the
unemployment movement has done a
lot in perking up the town and keep
ing some hands at work. But no great
drafts on the public treasury are re
corded. Big jobs are resting. Duiing
he past year the bonded debt ha»3 been
reduced, and the sinking fund is ac
cumulating the money for further re
duction as further payments come
due.
See Bright Future
Mayor Stutts says the big job of
street work has been disposed of for
the present, the water situation is well
provided for, new houses and indivi
dual improvement of property add
steadily to the taxable values, debt
against the fire equipment is being
paid off, and the hopeful prophets
are looking to the future with much
satisfaction. He says the town is op
erating within its revenue, that no
apparent calls for money will arise
in the near future, and that the town
can broaden now in material form on
the foundation that has been built in
substantial manner. The permanent
improvements of Southern Pines are
va'lued at nearly $700,000, which ex
ceeds the debts by $50,000; the inter
est payments are decreasing, the fund
ed debt is decreasing, and the future
is indicative of increase of property
values as the indebtedness decreases.
The water system of Southern
Pines is one of the best supplying any
town of considerably greater size in
the country. A large increase of pop
ulation will be served before the pres
ent facilities are taxed, except that
from time to time growing neighbor
hoods will call for the extension of
lines. The recent fire at the Southern
Pines Hotel showed the efficiency of
the Fire Department and equipment.
The condition of the streets now is
satisfactory for a much extended de
velopment. The annexation of the
Jimtown section has already seen an
Court House News
Real Estate Transfers
Clipped from the Charlotte Observer: i ^ ,
about it being hot in the L this ‘phony disease-
South in Summer time! Those people"! .peach
yet tarrying at Southern. Pines must I ^ ^ t ^ w
. . be feeling mighty comfortable among j „ ? d ” »
Frank M. Armstrong, Commission- j friend queried of Dr R. W. Lieby, en-
er, to Word H. Wood, Commissioner ^ | tomologist for the State Department
u: 4. u 4-4. j n of Agriculture.
a heat wave that ‘ has shattered all
“That’s its real name,” Dr. Leiby
asserted. “You know it was found
Southern Pines doorway may be read- ; ^^^7^ Southern Georgia where the
ing at 74, while at the same time there ^ serve a eir peach
trees were looking funny. An outsid-
is the reading up at Boston of 94. : . , „ ,
: er came in and spelled “funny’ like
of Banks, and his successors in office:
property in Bensalem township.
Dr. A. H. McLeod to Eldredge R.
Johnson: property in Sandhills town
ship.
Eldredge R. Johnson to Dr. A. H.
McLeod: property in Sandhills town
ship.
L. A. McDonald and wife and Nan
nie McDonald to William Little:
property in Sandhills township.
Emily Meader Easton to Frances
Easton Tufts: property in
Springs township.
Mineral
records,” with five people dead of
sunstroke. The thermometer at their
I they pronounced it which was ‘phony*
Eggs have been selling in the coun- and that’s the way the disease got its
try neighborhoods for 15 cents, but name.”
NEW BOOKS ADDED BY 4 ! OPEN HOUSE AT MEN’S
SOUTHERN PINES LIBRARY CLUB MONDAY EVENINGS
Marriage License
Marriage license has been issued to lows:
W. E. Hussey and Gertrude Hunsuck-
er, both of Hemp.
New books added by the Southern i The Men’s Club of Southern Pines
Pines Library are announced as fol- ' held its second “open house” gather-
! ing in the club’s quarters on Penn-
The Road Back, by E. M. Remarque; ' sylvania avenue Monday night, four
The Square Circle, by Denis MacKail; ; tables of bridge being in play. The
The Pure Heart, Franz Wrzel; I members of the club extend a cordial
Clowns and Criminals, E. P. Oppen- ^ invitation to their friends to join
heim; The Vintage of Ton Tee; L. T. | these social gatherings every Monday
Miln; Captain Blood Returns, Saba- evening.
improvement in that quarter, and
solved a problem that was becom
ing difficult to forecast. But with
the addition of the section to the , tini; The Glass Key, Dashfell Ham-'
town of Southern Pines the new au- niett; Ambrose Holt and Family, Su- |
thority has taken decisive steps in | san Glaspell; Flamenco, Smith; White |
improving conditions across the creek, Fawn
with satisfactory results and with pos
itive promises for a better future
there. The Pennsylvania avenue ex
tension has taken its place as a road
of much travel, and what is better, it
has stimulated the people in its vicin
ity to undertake the improvement of
their neighborhood.
All these things seem to point to
the most promising future for South-
MAY WEATHER
May, following the capricious lead
Olive Higgins Prouty; Fatal I of April, deluged us w’ith showers and
Interview, Edna St. Vincent Millay; | swept the Sandhills with cool breezes
Songs of Unrest, Bernice Kenyon. i that dropped the average tempera-
Juvenile—Susie Sugarbeet, by M. ture five degrees or more, though the
Ashman. heaviest rainfall, 1.64 inches on the
Donations—Green Bondage, Magni- 22nd, did not reach the high of 1.89
ficent Comedy, Village Book, Success, inches of April 19th. Normal rain-
; fall for the first five months of the
yeai*, 18.92 inches, has been exceeded
by 4.42 inches.
the
VISITING PARENTS
Mrs. Albert H. Aldridge of New i Comparisons of temperature,
ern Pines. The village has come out York City arrived Thursday to spend period average being maximum
of the wiregrass and become a city of i ^ few days with her parents, Dr. and 82-8; minimus 58 and mean tempera-
Mrs. J. Symington, of Carthage. Mrs. ture 70-4, with May of 1930 giving a
Aldridge is the wife of Dr. Aldridge,
maximum of 86-2; minimum 5-511 and
mean 70-7 show most unusual figures
for May just past, they being a max-
I imum of 80 (2-8 less than normal)
progress and sound footing, with its
attractiveness known to a wide world,
and its people having reached the ' prominent surgeon of New York,
point where they realize the valu;’ of
their possibilities, and where they
have been able to provide for visitors that people require. The next big job minimum 50-7 (7-3 less than normal)
and residents the things that interest ^ is the cultivation of the projects that and a m^n temperature of 65 (5-4
people. The biggest task in creating have been established, and that culti- degrees l^s than normal.)
a winter resort and a permanent vation is going forward now on such Our coldest day recorded a temper-
home section has been accomplished, a course that it is to some extent au- ature of 41, 4 degrees above the low
that 'of putting the place on a footing tomatic and definite and positive. The record of 37, and our w’armest day
broad enough and efficient enough to ^future is extremely bright and satisfy- (registered 91, 10 degrees less than a
provide the comforts and pleasures j ing. | May day in 1926.
Bakers’ Food Store
EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT
A HOME STORE FOR HOME PEOPLE
West Broad Street
“We Deliver”
Phone 5681
WHEN THE TEMPERATURE GOES UP, PRICES IN OUR STORE
COME DOWN.
BROOKFIELD
BUTTER
Lb.—29c
FAT BACKS,
Thick
Lb—5c
NUT BUTTER
Better than Nucoa
2 lbs. for 25c
LEGS OP LAMB
Special, Lb.—23c
LARD,
Best Compound—lOe
SUGAR,
Lb.—5c
MARKET SPECIALS
Swift Premium Bacon, lb. 35c
Baco^, our slice, lb 27c
All-Pork Sausage, lb 17c
Pork Chops, lb. 19c
Hamburger, lb. 15c
Grade A. Milk, quart - 15c
GROCERY SPECIALS
Fig Bars, lb 10c
Mule tobacco, plug
Lemons, per doz. 25c
Carnation Milk, tall, 3 for 25c
Palmolive Soap—3 cakes for 25c
1 Palmolive Beads—FREE.
12 lbs.—35c
24 lbs.—65c
Meal per Peck—25c
WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF FRUIT JARS AND CANNING
SUPPLIES.